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By  WILLIAM  T.  HORNADAY,    ScD.,  A.  M. 

Member  Board   of   Trustees  American  Defense  Society 


Author   of   "Awake!    America,"    "A    Searchlight    on    Germany" 
and   "A    Democracy   of    Crocodiles" 


"In  Russia  a  wife  of  the  great  divide 
Stands  dazedly  counting  her  dead. 

Before  her  a  barren  grain-field  lies; 

Beyond  her  the  smokeless  factories  rise; 

Beside  her  the  voice  of  Famine  cries, 
'Hurrah  for  a  crust  of  bread!'" 


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The   Society  is  supported   entirely  by 
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contributions.      Membership    is    open    to 
all  citizens  of  the  United  States.     It  is 
strictly  non-political. 

THEODORE   ROOSEVELT'S   WARNING. 

"We  should  set  our  faces  like  flint  against  the 
criminal  leadership  of  the  I.  W.  W. 

"The  Socialists  and  all  the  crew  who  stand  for 
any  form  tof  either  Bolshevism  or  Kaiserism  have 
been  warned  that  they  shall  not  betray  this  nation. 

"The  simple  truth  is  that  the  men  who  lead  and 
give  tone  to  the  I.  W.  W.  are  more  dangerous 
criminals  than  an  equal  number  of  white  slavers 
and  black  handers. 

"The  Internationalist  of  the  Red  Flag  or  the 
Black  Flag  type  is  an  enemy  of  this  nation  just 
exactly  as  much  as  Hindenburg  or  Ludendorff  was 
before  the  armistic  was  signed. 

"The  utter  ruin  which  the  Bolsheviks  have 
brought  on  Russia  offers  an  illuminating  example 
of  the  destruction  which  they  would  bring  upon  the 
United  States." 


THE   GREAT   DIVIDE. 

"Something  for  nothing!     They  shall  not  pass!" 

The  high-brow   Socialist   cried. 
"Down  with  the  capitalistic  class! 
Up  with  the  proletariat  mass! 

Hurrah  for  the  great  divide!" 

"Something  for  nothing!"     The  Anarchist  came 

Fresh  from  the  other  side. 
Alien  in  heart  and  alien  in  name, 
Bankrupt  in  gratitude,  sense  and  shame, 

He  shrieks  for  the  great  divide. 

"Something  for  nothing!     No  work,  high  pay!" 

The  I.  W.  W.  decide. 
"Welcome  the  dawn  of  our  sabotage  day. 
Unless  we  are  given  our  sovereign  way, 
Destroy  the  machine,  and  set  fire  to  the  hay! 
Hurrah  for  the  great  divide!" 

"Something  for  nothing!"  the  Bolshevists  yell, 

Sweeping  all  order  aside. 

"Give  us  your  lands  and  your  goods  as  well, 
Your  all,  or  we'll  send  your  souls  to  hell! 

Now  cometh  the  great  divide!" 

In  Russia  a  wife  of  the  great  divide 
Stands  dazedly  counting  her  dead. 

Before  her  a  barren  grain-field  lies, 

Beyond  her  the  smokeless  factories  rise; 

Beside  her  the  voice  of  Famine  cries, 
"Hurrah  for  a  crust  of  bread  1" 

W.  T.  H. 


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The  Lying  Lure  of  Bolshevism 

By  William  T.  Hornaday. 

CONCERNING  THE  PARENTAGE  OF  BOLSHEVISM 

To  millions  of  persons  whose  moral  standards  are  worth 
about  five  cents  on  the  dollar,  the  idea  of  legally  robbing 
some  one  else  is  positively  fascinating.  The  practice  of  it 
in  America,  England,  Germany  and  Russia  under  the  gen- 
eral title  of  Predatory  High  Finance,  is  too  well  known 
to  require  comment.  Those  who  rob  in  from  five  to  seven 
figures  are  chiefly  responsible  for  the  birth  of  the  monster 
called  Bolshevism;  but  let  it  be  distinctly  understood  (1) 
that  not  every  hated  "capitalist"  is  a  robber,  any  more 
than  every  laboring  man  is  one.  We  have  seen  that  many 
a  millionaire  has  earned  his  millions  just  as  honestly  as 
any  carpenter  earns  his  wage  of  $5  per  day;  but  the  so- 
cialists ignor  or  vehemently  deny  this  fact. 

It  is  true  that  we  consumers  have  suffered  from  Pre- 
datory Capital ;  and  many  efforts  have  been  made  to 
muzzle  it.  Now,  however,  the  pendulum  has  swung  too 
far  the  other  way,  and  the  world  is  fighting  for  its  life 
against  the  Robber  Horde. 

The  Robber  Horde  is  dazzled  and  enthralled  by  the  lust 
for  unearned  power  and  wealth.  Lenine  and  Trotzky  have 
set  the  pace,  and  shown  that  the  Great  Divide  sometimes 
is  possible. 

Bolshevism  is  the  direct  appeal  to  Greed  and  Lust 
through  Ignorance  and  Brute  Force.  Show  me  a  Bol- 
shevist and  I  will  show  you  a  potential  robber  and  free- 
lover. 

The  lure  of  Bolshevism  and  Marxian  Socialism  is  at 
once  the  most  powerful  and  dangerous  that  ever  tempted 
rotten-hearted  and  sinful  men.  "Stolen  property"  is  its 
bait,  and  Ignorance  is  its  favorite  agent.  Whenever  its 
foes  are  commanded  by  General  Apathy,  the  robbers  win. 

THE  LOGIC  OF  MARX-LENINE  SOCIALISM 

The  time  for  the  academic  study,  or  investigation  of  the 
principles  of  socialism  has  gone  by.  The  hostiles  are  on 
the  war-path  with  their  paint  on  and  their  tomahawks 
sharpened  for  action.  Under  the  red  flag  of  anarchy  blood 
has  flowed  in  Russia  in  great  streams,  and  it  is  flowing 

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today  in  the  streets  of  other  lands.  Just  fancy  the  shoot- 
ing down  of  hundreds  of  people — mostly  civilians — in  th« 
quiet  streets  of  Dresden,  around  the  union  railway  station! 

It  may  be  started  next  in  Madison  Square. 

"Revolution"  is  the  word  on  the  lips  of  many  a  Socialist 
orator;  and  that  means  civil  war — no  more  and  no  less. 

The  program  of  the  Socialists  and  Bolsheviks  can  be 
printed  on  one  page.  According  to  Marx  of  72  years  ago, 
and  Lenine  today,  it  is  precisely  as  follows: 

In  every  country  a  despotic  "dictatorship"  of  the  un- 
washed human  herd  of  "proletariat." 

"Clean  out  the  capitalists." 

Seize  the  banks,  trust  companies,  lands,  mines,  factories, 
railroads,  telegraphs,  telephones,  street  railways, 
steamship  lines,  docks,  ferries,  all  public  buildings  and 
offices,  forests,  water  power,  securities,  goods,  jewels 
and  houses.  Strip  clean  all  owners  of  property;  be- 
cause every  property  owner,  and  every  one  who  hires 
help  of  any  kind,  is  a  "capitalist"  and  a  "slave-driver." 

Turn  all  property  over  to  the  class-conscious  (and  often 
ignorant!)  workmen  and  "soldiers,"  to  manage  as  they 
see  fit,  by  "soviet"  meetings  and  continuous  voting. 

Abolish  all  police. 

Have  an  army ;  but  no  general  or  other  officer  is  to  issue 
a  command  until  he  has  obtained  authority  to  do  so 
by  a  vote  of  the  "soldiers." 

All  "profits"  are  to  be  taken  out  of  all  industries. 

Money  is  abolished. 

The  ignorant  "proletariat  mass"  of  rough-necks  under- 
takes to  regulate  and  manage  the  production  and  dis- 
tribution of  food. 

The  land  is  given  to  the  people  who  can  work  it  with 
their  own  hands,  without  hiring  help. 

Only  those  who  work  with  their  hands  can  vote.  All 
those  who  do  intellectual  work  (at  laborers'  wages) 
are  disfranchised,  because  they  are  not  producers. 

The  intellectuals  and  educated  people  (burgeoise)  are 
pulled  down  to  the  level  of  the  most  ignorant  laborers, 
to  bring  about  "equality." 

Socialism  is  bitterly  hostile  to  the  church  and  religion. 

The  Marx-Lenine  socialist  has  no  country,  and  knows 
no  such  sentiment  as  patriotism.  He  is  an  "interna- 
tionalist." 

Finally,  the  radical  socialist  oppose  all  wars — save  of 
their  own  making — and  refuse  to  fight  in  defense  of 
their  country,  whatever  that  may  be.  They  oppose 

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the  buying  of  liberty  bonds,  and  the  payment  of  na- 
tional debts.  (One  of  Lenine's  first  actions  was  to 
repudiate  the  national  debt  of  Russia.) 

Thanks  to  Lenine,  Trotzky  and  their  fellow  gunmen  this 
bedeviled  world  has  been  given  a  practical  demonstration 
of  Marxian  Socialist-Bolshevism  carried  out  to  its  full 
logical  conclusion. 

And  what  do  we  see? 

We  see  a  once-great  nation  in  RUINS ! 

The  idiotic  socialists  have,  ever  since  Carl  Marx,  vocif- 
erously demanded  that  all  production  and  distribution  of 
food  shall  be  under  the  control  of  "the  class-conscious 
proletariat."  Ever  since  November  7,  1917  (most  fatal 
day !)  the  hell-hounds  ,o,f  Russia  under  Lenine  and  Trotzky 
have  been  in  control  of  the  production  and  distribution  of 
all  food.  They  have  had  "the  granary  of  Europe"  at  their 
command.  The  people  have  had  to  obey  them,  or  be  shot. 
One  full  harvest  time  has  come  and  gone. 

And  where  are  they  today? 

On  April  11,  1919,  no  less  an  authority  than  Herbert  C. 
Hoover  issued  publicly  in  Paris,  a  statement  containing 
the  following  declaration : 

"In  Russia  the  gravity  of  the  situation  can  not  be  over- 
estimated. A  very  conservative  estimate  would  indicate 
that  upwards  of  200,000  people  are  directly  or  indirectly 
dying  from  the  food  shortage  [i.  e.  FAMINE !]  monthly 
at  the  present  moment,  and  the  situation  is  likely  to  grow 
in  intensity  as  the  season  progresses. 

"The  Lenine  and  Trotzky  socialization  of  the  processes 
of  production  has  so  WRECKED  both  production  and  dis- 
tribution as  to  creat  a  state  of  famine  in  a  country  which 
formerly  contributed  to  the  food  supply  of  the  world." 

THE  "SOCIALIST"  PARTY  IN  AMERICA 

In  America  the  pre-war  Socialist  party  was  a  very  dif- 
ferent organization  from  the  Socialist  party  of  1919.  It 
contained  many  men  who  felt  that  as  between  Capital  and 
Labor  the  times  were  out  of  joint,  and  a  new  deal  was 
necessary  to  put  them  right.  Concerning  the  abuses  of  the 
power  of  combined  capital,  they  were  absolutely  right. 

With  the  moderate  socialists  of  the  pre-war  type  we  have 
no  quarrel.  They  believed  in  the  betterment  of  society 
and  economics  by  ballot  and  legislation  rather  than  by 
strike  and  the  bludgeon. 

But  the  Socialist  party  of  today  is  a  party  of  radicals, 
extremists  and  red-flaggers.  Those  elements  apparently 

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are  in  practically  complete  control.  To  doubt  this  is  to 
doubt  the  evidence  of  one's  senses.  What  else  are  we  to 
think  when  we  read  (N.  Y.  Tribune,  Apr.  12,  1919  such 
headlines  as  these: 

RADICALS  FORCE  BOLSHEVISM  ON 
SOCIALIST  PARTY 

Left  Wing  Has  Manifesto  Adopted  in  Queens  That  Pledges 
Aid  to  Russian  and  German  Extremists. 

Gaining  Control  of  Party. 

Referendum  Through  Nation  Expected  to  Place  Power  of 
Body  in  Their  Hands. 

"The  so-called  Left  Wing  of  the  Socialist  Party  is  con- 
stantly pressing  forward  toward  complete  capture  of  the 
Socialist  party  machinery It  was  admitted  by  of- 
ficials of  the  Socialist  party  at  the  party's  headquarters  at 
7  East  15th  Street  that  the  Left  Wing  might  obtain  control 
in  the  party's  Central  Committee,  which,  as  the  chief  organ 
of  the  party  lays  down  the  rules  and  methods  of  organiza- 
tion and  agitation. 

"Similar  progress  is  being  made  by  the  Left  Wing  in 
other  cities.  Philadelphia,  Boston,  Detroit,  Cleveland  and 
other  centres  are  already  in  its  grip." 


This  way  lie  MADNESS,  RIOT,  CIVIL  WAR,  BLOOD- 
SHED, DESTRUCTION  AND  CHAOS— the  same  as  in 
Russia ! 

And  so  we  say,  when  Socialist  and  Bolshevik  travel  to- 
gether and  sleep  in  the  same  bed,  we  are  justified  in  calling 
them  all  by  the  universal  name,  Bolsheviki. 

The  Socialists,  like  all  the  other  Bolsheviks  of  America, 
are  industrious  and  persistent  educators.  Now  they  are 
entering  seriously  into  the  business  of  poisoning  the  minds 
of  the  young,  even  little  children  of  tender  years.  On  Mon- 
day, April  14,  the  New  York  Tribune  published  an  array 
of  startling  facts  under  the  following  head-line  summary: 

Lenine  Doctrines  Taught  to  Hundreds  of  Children  in 

Socialist  Schools  Here. 
Classes  Conducted  Regularly  on  Sundays,  and  Pupils 

Quickly  Learn  to  Hate  the  Capitalists. 

Youngsters  Speak  Glibby  of  Proletariats,  Manifestos 

and  Anarchy. 

Fifteen  such  schools  are  holding  regular  sessions.  Soon 
there  will  be  at  least  one  school  for  each  Assembly  District. 
The  locations  of  the  Schools  were  given,  and  stenographic 

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reports  of  proceedings  were  printed.  They  are  under  the 
general  direction  of  a  Russian  Bolshevist  named  Samuel  A. 
Slavsky,  who  said:  "Certainly  I  am  a  Bolshevist."  At  the 
Rand  Socialist  School  teachers  are  taught  every  Wednesday 
night. 

A  Russian  who  SAYS  he  is  a  Bolshevist,  teaching 
teachers  in  the  Rand  School  regularly ! 

Americans,  how  do  you  like  the  picture? 

THE  BLUDGEON  OF  BOLSHEVISM. 

One  conflagration  has  succeeded  another.  No  sooner 
were  the  flames  of  German  militarism  extinguished  than 
the  fires  of  Russian  Bolshevism  began  to  spread  beyond 
devastated  Russia,  and  threaten  the  world.  The  torturers, 
murderers,  thieves  and  maniacs  of  Russia  have  found  quick 
assistance  from  their  "brother"  Socialists  and  anarchists  of 
Europe,  America  and  Argentina. 

Ten  per  cent,  of  Europe  and  one  per  cent,  of  America 
have  gone  mad  with  lust  for  robbery,  blood  and  destruction. 

Here  in  America,  at  this  very  moment  L.  C.  A.  K.  Martens 
is  flaunting  himself  in  public  as  the  official  representative 
of  the  ghastly  Lenine-Trotzky  "Soviet"  chaos  in  Russia. 
Of  course  the  American  Bolsheviks  are  kowtowing  to  him. 
He  spoke  at  a  public  meeting  of  Socialists  at  the  Hunt's 
Point  Palace,  Bronx  Borough,  New  York  City,  on  April  2, 
1919  ;  and  the  U.  S.  Department  of  Justice  tolerates  Martens' 
presence  in  America,  and  has  rejected  demands  for  his  arrest 
and  internment  as  an  active  enemy  alien. 

And  the  cables  from  Paris  tell  us  that  in  Paris  an  effort 
was  made  to  invite  the  Leninist  murderers  of  Russia  to  send 
representatives  to  the  Peace  Conference, — to  help  arrange 
terms  with  Russian  anarchy,  murder  and  wholesale  robbery ! 

Doesn't  it  look  like  hell? 

Since  we  already  have  hell  upon  earth,  in  many  places, 
it  is  perfectly  right  to  talk  about  it  in  fitting  terms. 

Let  us  prepare  NOW ! 

"Bludgeon"  is  the  word  to  couple  with  Socialism,  as  well 
as  with  Bolshevism. 

The  Bolsheviks  have  put  the  blood  into  it;  and  with  it 
they  rob,  beat  down,  smash,  torture,  kill  and  pulverize 
everything  that  civilized  men  and  women  hold  most  dear. 
It  smashes  the  flag,  the  government,  the  rights  of  men,  the 
honored  citizen,  the  home,  and  the  honor  of  women. 

Arm  a  gorilla  or  a  Hun  with  a  knotted  club,  turn  him 
loose  to  smash  everything  in  sight,  and  you  have  a  Bol- 
shevik. 

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Bolshevism,  or  radical  Socialism,  is  the  replacement  of 
democracies  and  monarchies  by  the  most  cruel  and  brutal 
form  of  proletariat  despotism,  and  political  and  economic 
chaos,  that  ever  was  conceived  by  man.  It  is  a  wild  orgy 
of  murder,  loot,  lust  and  laziness. 

RUSSIAN  BOLSHEVIK  ATROCITIES:  A  WARNING. 

In  western  Russia,  Bolshevism  now  has  been  fully  in 
power  ever  since  Nov.  7,  1917.  The  Russian  educated 
people  and  owners  of  property  have  had  full  time  in  which 
to  learn  the  results  of  Bolshevik  logic  carried  out  to  six 
decimal  places.  Mr.  Albert  Rhys  Williams  says  "it  is  an 
interesting  experiment";  but  to  the  respectable  people  of 
Russia  it  is  a  bloody,  hungry,  ragged  and  hideous  accom- 
plished fact.  Mr.  Herbert  C.  Hoover  formally  has  an- 
nounced that  through  the  utter  incompetence  of  the  Bol- 
shevists, and  the  breakdown  of  their  Soviet  systems  (?) 
for  the  production  and  distribution  of  food,  upwards  of 
200,000  people  are  dying  of  starvation  every  month. 

In  order  that  the  people  may  know  exactly  what  to  ex- 
pect whenever  the  class-conscious  dictatorship  of  the 
proletariat  once  gets  them  by  the  throat,  we  are  going  to 
print  here  some  Exhibits  of  the  actual  doings  of  Bolshevism 
in  Russia,  as  it  were  only  yesterday.  Now,  Reader,  after 
you  have  read  this  section  ask  yourself  these  two  questions : 

1.— What  will  be  the  effect  upon  the  United  States  and 
the  world  at  large  of  leaving  the  gorillas  of  Bolshevism  in 
power  in  Russia? 

2. — Ought  we  to  help  Russia  with  some  of  our  surplus 
war  stores,  or  send  them  to  the  scrap  pile  instead? 

It  is  well  worth  while  to  place  on  record  in  these  pages 
a  very  few  of  the  records  of  Bolshevik  atrocities  that  have 
filtered  out  of  Russia  this  year. 

The  occurrences  recited  below  are  exactly  what  any 
community  confidently  may  expect  from  the  rule  of  Bol- 
shevism, anarchy  and  communism. 

FROM  THE  NEW  YORK  TIMES,  March  llth,  1919 

RUSSIA  UNDER  REDS  A  GIGANTIC  BEDLAM 
Escaped  Victims  say  Maniacs  Stalk  Raving  Through  the  Streets 

of  Moscow. 

Fight  Dogs  for  Carrion. 

Starving  Crowds  Devour  Flesh  Torn  from  the  Carcasses  of 
Worn-out  Horses 


GENEVA,  March  9.— Fugitives  from  Russia  describe  life  tn 
Russia  under  Lenine's  rule  as  a  nightmare  In  a  lunatic  asylum. 
These  unfortunates  continue  to  straggle  into  Switzerland.  I  hare 


talked  with  many  of  the  victims  of  the  Bolshevist  madness,  who 
are  still  haunted  by  the  terrible  scenes  they  have  witnessed,  and 
unnerved  by  the  mental  and  physical  tortures  they  have  endured, 
and  the  tales  they  tell  are  full  of  grotesque  horror. 

"The  City  of  Moscow,"  one  of  them  says,  "is  reduced  to  about 
1,000,000  inhabitants.  Before  the  Bolshevist  regime  it  had  3,000,- 
000.  The  population  is  dying  of  starvation  and  plague,  decimated 
by  executions,  rotting  in  prisons.  Flight  is  almost  impossible, 
for  the  trains  have  stopped  running. 

"In  the  streets  tragic  and  terrifying  scenes  are  enacted.  A  horse 
falls  exhausted  with  hunger  and  is  immediately  attacked  by  a 
score  of  famished  dogs,  who  begin  tearing  it.  Red  Guards  with 
loaded  revolvers  keep  off  the  crowd  which  soon  assembles,  watch- 
ing the  horrible  sight  with  ferocious  looks  of  envy.  But  some- 
times the  guards  do  not  arrive  on  the  scene  in  time,  and  then  men 
and  women  cast  themselves  upon  the  carcass,  slashing  it  with  their 
knives  and  fighting  with  the  snarling  dogs  for  the  bleeding  strips 
of  flesh,  which  they  devour  on  the  spot,  not  having  sufficient  will 
power  to  carry  home  to  cook. 

"Such  is  the  communist  paradise  which  the  Bolsheviki  promised 
their  miserable  dupes.  Fear  and  famine  have  engendered  a  ver- 
itable epidemic  of  insanity.  The  asylums  are  overcrowded  and  for 
the  last  two  months  have  been  unable  to  accept  new  patients. 
Lunatics  and  maniacs  of  all  kinds  stalk  raving  through  the  streets. 
The  prisons  are  full  of  madmen.  In  the  maternity  hospitals  the 
death  rate  is  incredibly  high.  According  to  the  managing  physic- 
ian of  one  of  these  establishments  90  per  cent,  of  the  mothers  die 
after  child-birth,  and  infant  mortality  is  scarcely  lower. 

"Funerals,  like  everything  else,  are  'nationalized.'  That  is  to 
say,  the  dead  are  carried  away  in  carts  and  dumped  into  a  vast 
common  grave  at  the  cost  of  the  State.  No  religious  ceremony 
is  performed,  and  no  crosses  may  be  erected  over  this  gruesome 
pit. 

"The  nationalization  of  women  has  been  carried  out  in  various 
provincial  towns,  but  so  far  Moscow  has  escaped  this  crowning 
infamy.  In  some  districts,  however,  the  local  Soviets  have  gone 
even  further  and  have  instituted  a  sort  of  conscription  of  women 
for  immoral  purposes.  An  informant  has  communicated  to  me 
the  following  authentic  document: 

"WORKMEN'S  SOVIET  OF  MURZILOWSKA,  Dec.  16,  1918.— 
The  Soviet  herewith  gives  full  authority  to  Comrade  Gregory 
Savelieff  to  commandeer  after  his  choice  for  the  needs  of  the  ar- 
tillery regiments  garrisoned  at  Murzilowska,  District  of  Briansk, 
sixty  young  women  and  girls  of  the  bourgeois  classes,  and  deliver 
them  at  the  barracks.  Kamenkin,  President  of  the  Soviet. 
Sabelnikoff,  Secretary." 

"While  the  people  including  the  proletariat,  are  starving  and 
dying  of  disease  by  thousands,  sunk  in  the  most  abject  misery," 
says  another  fugitive,  a  Swiss  engineer  who  was  in  Moscow  two 
weeks  ago,  "the  Bolshevist  leaders  and  high  officials  live  a  life  of 
luxury  and  dissipation  in  the  finest  palaces  and  hotels  of  the  city. 
Each  Commissary  has  several  handsome  and  elegant  'lady  secre- 
taries' attached  to  his  person.  Every  night  these  Bolshevist 
officers  are  dining  and  carousing  with  their  female  secretaries  in 
the  most  fashionable  restaurants  in  Moscow — the  Empire  and  Na- 
tional— into  which  only  prominent  members  of  the  Soviet, 
equipped  with  special  entrance  tickets,  may  penetrate,  for  inde- 
acribable  orgies  are  enacted  there." 

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FROM  THE  N.  Y.  TIMES  of  Feb.  15th,  1919. 


OMSK  ARCHBISHOP  TELLS  OF  ATROCITIES 
Gruesome  Picture  of  Bolshevist  Rule  Drawn  in  Letter  to  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury. 

Details  Confirmed  by  Information  Reaching  the  Foreign  Office, 
English  Primate  Says. 


LONDON,  Feb.  14. — An  appalling  arraignment  of  the  Bolshe- 
vist regime  was  read  by  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  in  the  con- 
vocation today.  It  was  contained  in  the  following  message  from 
the  Archbishop  of  Omsk,  President  of  the  supreme  administra- 
tion of  the  Orthodox  Church: 

"Having  seized  supreme  power  in  Russia  in  1917  the  Maximal- 
ists proceeded  to  destroy  not  only  the  cultivated  classes  of  society 
but  have  also  swept  away  religion  itself,  the  representatives  of 
the  Church,  and  religious  monuments  venerated  by  all. 

"The  Kremlin  cathedrals  of  Moscow  and  those  in  the  towns  of 
Yaroslav  and  Simferopol  have  been  sacked  and  many  churches 
have  been  defiled.  Historical  sacristies  as  well  as  the  famous 
libraries  of  the  Patriarchs  of  Moscow  and  Petrograd  have  been 
pillaged.  Vladimer,  Metropolitan  of  Kiev,  twenty  Bishops,  and 
hundreds  of  priests  have  been  assassinated.  Before  killing  them 
the  Bolsheviki  cut  off  the  limbs  of  their  victims,  some"  of  whom 
were  buried  alive.  Religious  processions  followed  by  great  masses 
of  people  at  Petrograd,  Toula,  Kharkov,  and  Eoligalitch  were 
fired  upon. 

"Wherever  the  Bolsheviki  are  in  power  the  Christian  Church  is 
persecuted  with  even  greater  ferocity  than  in  the  first  three  cen- 
turies of  the  Christian  era.  Nuns  are  being  violated,  women  made 
common  property,  and  license  and  the  lowest  passions  are  ram- 
pant. One  sees  everywhere  death,  misery,  and  famine.  The 
population  is  utterly  cast  down  and  subjected  to  the  most  terrify- 
ing experiences." 


FROM  THE  N.  Y.  SUN,  of  Feb.   4th,  1919. 


BOLSHEVIK  TERRORS  TOLD  BY  REFUGEES 
Railroad  Workmen  Drink  Naphtha,  Benzine  and  Kerosene  with 

Maddening  Effects. 

Moscow  City  of  Death 

Bread  $50  a  pound  and  fuel  unobtainable  at  any  price. 


OMSK,  Feb.  3. — Foreigners  and  Russians  arriving  here  from 
Russia  paint  a  terrible  picture  of  conditions  prevailing  under  Bol- 
shevist rule.  Absolute  confiscation  of  every  commodity  appears 
to  be  universal.  Everything  has  been  taken  from  the  peasants 
except  where  they  have  combined  to  resist  spoliation.  In  some 
districts  it  is  the  military  order  that  no  less  than  twelve  Red 
Guards  are  allowed  to  enter  a  village,  because  smaller  numbers 
are  set  upon  and  destroyed. 

Railway  communication  except  for  military  purposes  is  prac- 
tically non-existent  owing  to  the  condition  of  the  workmen,  who 
drink  naphtha,  benzine  and  kerosene  with  maddening  effects.  The 
situation  in  Moscow  is  described  as  ghastly.  All  the  shops  except 
those  maintained  by  the  Soviet  are  closed;  nothing  is  obtainable 

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without  cards  and  only  those  associated  with  the  Bolshevists  ob- 
tain cards,  so  that  the  people  who  stand  aloof  suffer  indescrib- 
able hardships. 

Although  the  cold  in  Moscow  is  only  a  little  less  severe  than  in 
Siberia  there  is  no  coal  in  the  city  and  hardly  any  wood  for  heat- 
ing; the  latter  is  coarsely  rationed  and  only  Bolshevist  partisans 
share  in  the  little  available  heat.  It  is  impossible  to  estimate  how 
many  persons  are  dying  of  starvation,  but  everybody  coming  from 
Russia  declare  the  Bolshevists  are  deliberately  endeavoring  to 
exterminate  the  intelligenzia. 

Many  of  the  churches  in  Moscow  have  been  turned  into  theatres. 

The  famous  sacred  Strastnoi  Monastery  has  been  transformed 
into  a  dancing  hall,  where  women  revel  nightly.  The  Bolshevists, 
having  been  excommunicated  by  the  church,  are  doing  everything 
possible  to  destroy  its  influence  among  the  peasantry  by  propa- 
ganda and  violation.  It  is  now  known  as  certain  that  many  pris- 
oners returning  from  Germany  and  Austria  have  been  impressed 
into  military  service,  the  unfortunate  being  kept  without  food  and 
clothing  until  ready  to  do  anything  to  save  their  lives.  Every 
town  is  a  military  camp,  where  training  on  a  large  scale  is  con- 
tinually going  on. 

Many  officers  of  the  old  army,  especially  those  with  staff  train- 
ing, are  forced  to  serve,  as  their  wives  and  families  are  being  held 
as  hostages  for  their  loyalty.  When  an  officer  without  domestic 
ties  is  doubted  a  batch  of  his  friends  are  warned  that  all  will  be 
shot  if  he  deserts  or  fails  to  perform  his  duty.  The  powers  of  the 
regimental  commissary  are  absolute,  and  gangs  of  desperadoes  are 
employed  with  every  unit  to  shoot  down  disaffected  officers  and 
men. 


From  the  N.  Y.  Tribune,  Jan.  6th,  1919. 


U.   S.   WOUNDED  MUTILATED   BY   REDS   WITH  AXES 
Report  shows  dead  also  are  hacked  by  Bolsheviki  on  Archangel 

Front. 
Kadish  is  Recaptured. 

Village  is  taken  second  time  by  Americans  fighting  in  the 
deep  snow. 

WITH  THE  ALLIED  ARMY  OF  THE  DVINA,  Jan.  4.  (By  the 
Associated  Press) — American  Troops,  fighting  desperately  near 
Kadish,  have  driven  back  Bolshevist  troops,  who  made  an  advance 
there.  The  Bolsheviki  also  launched  attacks  on  the  Onega  sector 
and  bombarded  the  Allied  front.  The  Americans  came  into  battle 
along  the  Petrograd  road  and  in  the  frozen  swamps  that  border  it. 
The  battle  was  fought  in  snow  from  two  to  four  feet  in  depth. 

Further  evidence  that  the  Bolsheviki  are  mutilating  Allied 
wounded  and  dead  came  to  headquarters  today  in  a  report  from 
Lieut.-Col.  Corberly,  who  was  in  command  of  American  forces  in 
the  vicinity  of  Shenkursk  on  November  29. 

Americans  were  the  victims,  according  to  the  report. 

A  patrol  of  sixty  American  soldiers  and  two  officers  was  sur- 
prised early  on  November  29  by  a  force  of  about  700  Bolsheviki. 
Seven  Americans  were  missing  and  seven  others  were  killed  after 
the  fight. 

Following  is  the  report  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  Corberly  as  to 
the  condition  of  the  bodies  found  after  the  ep«cagement,  the  names 
Of  the  men  being  omitted. 

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"No.  1,  lieutenant;  head  smashed  with  axe. 

"No.  2,  corporal;  head  so  smashed  with  axe  that  only  parts  of 
the  face  remained. 

"No.  3,  corporal;  head  smashed  in  with  axe  and  arms  and  legs 
broken  by  blows,  apparently  from  blunt  side  of  axe. 

"No.  4,  private;  head  smashed  with  axe. 

"No.  5,  private;  head  smashed  and  throat  cut  open,  apparently 
with  axe." 

The  discovery  of  mutilated  bodies  has  brought  a  new  spirit  to 
the  Americans,  who  are  now  fighting  mad. 


FROM  THE  NEW  YORK  SUN,  December  30th,  1918. 

PETROGRAD  ON  ROAD  TO  PHYSICAL  RUIN 
Principal   Streets  are  Filthy  and   Many   Buildings   Boarded   Up. 

Trotzky  Moral  Leper 
Murders  and  Tortures  Directed  by  Him.  Children  Learn  Atheism. 

WARSAW,   Dec.    29 

There  is  a  sort  of  Jacobin  court  which  meets  in  a  street  whose 
name  is  now  infamous  to  the  ears  of  Russians — the  Garochovaia, 
or  Street  of  Peas.  The  chief  judge  is  an  obese  Jewess  with  oiled 
locks  who  lolls  on  a  seat  while  all  around  her  press  her  crew  of 
Soviet  delegates,  largely  consisting  of  more  or  less  self-designated 
members.  This  court  is  called  "the  extraordinary  committee 
fighting  the  counter  revolution,  speculation  and  sabotage." 

As  might  be  expected,  open  war  has  been  declared  upon  all 
forms  of  religion.  Trotzky  has  given  great  attention  to  the 
schools,  into  which  cartloads  of  his  army  rations  are  sent  regu- 
larly, so  that  the  starving  population  will  be  sure  to  send  their 
children  where  food  awaits  them.  But  in  all  the  schools  have 
been  organized  compulsory  lessons,  beginning  with  the  youngest 
children,  to  train  them  to  believe  in  the  non-existence  of  the  Di- 
vine Being.  Those  courses  are  pompously  called  "atheism  courses." 

A  tax  has  been  established  upon  the  ikons,  or  sacred  images  of 
the  Russian  Church.  Divorce  and  marriage  have  been  made  mat- 
ters of  ten  minutes  and  before  some  vague  official  or  Soviet  officers 
designated  for  the  purpose.  Incompatibility  of  temperament  al- 
lows a  quick  divorce. 

These  great  evils,  however,  pale  before  some  of  the  atrocities 
that  are  being  regularly  committed  in  and  out  of  the  jails,  in 
towns  and  in  the  country  in  pursuance  of  Trotzky's  policy  of  fer- 
rorization.  You  have  been  reading  merely  of  thousands  being 
shot.  There  is  much  worse  than  mere  shooting  in  Russia.  Tales 
cf  what  happens  in  prisons  such  as  the  Peter  and  Paul  are  shock- 
ing, but  exact  evidence  of  the  happenings  outside  the  prisons 
is  bad  enough  for  anybody. 

A  nephew  of  a  former  Russian  Ambassador  to  Great  Britain 
told  me  yesterday  that  he  had  escaped  only  three  weeks  ago  from 
near  Petrograd,  and  that  during  his  dangerous  journey  he  had 
met  brother  officers  who  were  shaken  men  without  nerves.  They 
told  him  comrades  of  theirs  had  been  stripped  and  hung  head 
downwards  to  trees,  and  that  Trotzy's  fiends  had  then  begun  to 
flay  them  alive.  This  occurred  near  the  town  of  Pskov. 

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The  general  procedure  is  to  brand  upon  the  naked  shoulders 
of  officers  a  semblance  of  their  epaulettes  and  stars  that  used  to 
designate  their  rank. 

In  Volhynia  officials  who  were  trying  to  reach  Poland  were 
taken  and  stripped.  Their  limbs  were  broken  one  after  another 
with  blows  of  hammers  or  rifles,  their  teeth  beaten  in,  and  their 
tongues  pulled  out.  Their  bodies  were  thrown  in  the  snow.  A 
man  of  distinguished  family  and  education  who  had  seen  these 
terrible  sights  gave  me  the  details. 


From  the  New  York  Tribune,  Nov.   19,  1918. 


TRANSLATIONS  FROM  "THE  IZVESTIA,"  OF  THE 

EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE  OF  THE  KOTELNICH 
SOVIET  OF  THE  WORKMEN,  SOLDIERS  AND  PEASANT 
BEGGARS  DEPUTIES,  Sunday,  Sept.  29,  1918.     No.  46. 

Order  of  the  Extraordinary  Committee  attached  to  the  Soviet 
of  Peoples  Commissaries  to  fight  against  counter-revolution  on 
the  Szecho-Slovak  front,  Viatka  Section: 

The  Extraordinary  Commission  hereby  makes  it  known  to  the 
citizens  of  the  city  and  district  of  Kotelnich  that  if  the  slightest 
attempt  to  protest  against  the  power  of  the  workmen,  as  well  as 
every  agitation  and  spreading  of  false  rumors,  the  guilty  will  be 
taken  as  hostages  and  turned  over  to  concentration  camps  where 
they  will  be  shot.  All  street  meetings  will  be  quelled  mercilessly 
by  means  of  military  forces.  The  above  order  becomes  effective 
from  the  date  of  its  publication.  Chairman,  Poutte. 

According  to  a  resolution  passed  by  the  Extraordinary  Com- 
mittee the  following  persons  were  shot  for  counter-revolutionary 
actions,  and  speculation: 

"Here  follows  a  list  of  60  names,  all  of  whom  are  Russians,  and 
probably  peasants.) 

Now  let  us  cull  a  few  items  from  the  newspapers  of  the 
week  ending  April  20th,  1919.  I  would  like  to  ask  Mr.  A. 
Rhys  Williams  what  he  thinks  of  the  starving  to  death  on 
the  island  of  Haoen  of  seventy  thousand  men,  women  and 
children  in  one  block. 


FROM  THE  NEW  YORK  TRIBUNE,  April  18,  1919. 


REDS  EXILE  70,000  ON  ISLAND  WITHOUT  FOOD. 

STOCKHOLM,  April  17. — The  Bolsheviki  are  carrying  out  a 
rapid  and  systematic  annihilation  of  all  the  bourgeois  elements  in 
Riga,  according  to  reports  from  Libau  to  the  "Svenska  Dag- 
bladet." 

The  victims  of  the  Bolshevik  terror  are  taken  to  the  island  of 
Haoen,  in  the  Dvina  River,  and  are  said  to  number  70,000,  in- 
cluding women  and  children. 

No  one  is  permitted  to  take  food  or  money  to  the  island. 


Poor,  unhappy,  abused  Russia  is  a  frightful  object  lesson 
to  the  world.  Will  America  wake  up  and  take  sufficient 
heed  of  it?  Time  alone  will  tell. 

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AMBITION  OF  THE  BOLSHEVIKS. 

The  radical  Socialist  has  a  vast  and  lurid  imagination. 

Having  conquered  the  best  portions  of  Russia  and  Buda- 
pest, he  is  reaching  for  the  throat  of  all  civilization.  His 
dream  is  to  lay  the  world  in  ruins,  and  take  his  chances  on 
getting  a  long  lease  of  world  power  out  of  the  cha,o£.  But 
first  he  aims  to  bring  all  mankind  down  to  the  simple  level 
of  cave  men. 

In  the  Zoological  Park  we  have  a  big,  black  chimpanzee 
who  is  a  genuine  Bolshevist.  He  is  powerful,  ugly,  and 
has  dangerous  teeth.  He  has  the  lustfulness  of  a  Hun 
officer  ,o|f  infantry,  the  temper  of  a  wild  boar  and  the  heart 
of  a  raging  devil.  Morning,  noon  and  night,  sleeping  or 
waking,  his  one  dominant  thought  is  to  smash  things,  and 
to  hurt  some  one.  His  cunning  is  truly  devilish,  and  all 
of  it  is  directed  toward  destruction.  He  knows  no  such 
sentiments  as  gratitude  or  affectio;n,  and  personally  is  as 
ugly  as  he  is  wicked. 

That  animal  would  make  a  fine  patron  saint  for  the 
Russian  Bolshevists.  They  have  no  more  reasoning  power 
than  he,  and  exactly  the  same  ethical  code.  The  greatest 
difference  between  them  is  that  they  can  shoot  and  bomb 
and  the  chimp  cannot. 

The  lying  lure  of  Bolshevism  is  the  lowest  form  of  the 
appeal  (O(f  Greed  and  Lust  to  Ignorance,  Poverty  and  Brute 
Force.  Its  slogan, — as  developed  in  Russia, — is  the  acme 
of  directness  and  simplicity:  "HELP  YOURSELF!" 
These  are  the  words  used  by  an  American  officer  who  saw 
Socialism  at  work  in  Petrograd. 

Yes!  "Help  yourself," — to  your  neighbor's  land,  house 
clothes,  grain,  cattle,  implements,  money,  bank,  factory, 
mine,  church  and  crucifix.  In  some  parts  of  Russia  today 
it  also  is  "help  yourself"  to  your  neighbor's  young  wife 
and  daughters,  and  change  them  once  a  month,  if  you  like! 

In  Bolshevik  Russia,  unless  you  work  with  your  hands 
as  a  laborer,  you  are  not  permitted  to  vote!  If  you  hire 
even  one  servant  or  assistant,  you  are  a  "slaver-driver," 
and  "a  capitalist,"  and  you  are  out  of  the  Soviet.  If  you 
work  with  your  Drain  for  the  Soviet,  you  are  a  low  under- 
ling, and  you  can  not  vote, — because  you  are  "not  a 
producer." 

To  millions  of  Americans  outside  of  the  large  cities,  all 
this  will  seem  absurd,  ridiculous,  exaggerated,  and  im- 
possible. But  the  pity  of  it  is,  every  word  of  it  is  TRUE! 
Ask  the  American  Bolshevik,  Albert  Rhys  Williams,  about 
it.  I  am  sure  that  he  will  not  dispute  any  feature  of  the 

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story.  They  all  revel  in  the  bludgeon  idea,  and  joyfully 
contemplate  the  smashing  of  all  Civilization.  They  are 
the  most  cheerful  degenerates  on  earth. 

"Bolsheviki"  means  the  demanders  of  extremes.  Of  the 
five  political  parties  in  Russia  (Bolsheviki,  Mensheviki  or 
Social  Revolutionists,  Constitutional  Democrats  and  Prop- 
erty Owners)  they  form  the  extreme  Left,  because  they 
demand — chaos !  Even  their  nearest  neighbors,  the  Men- 
shiviki,  are  moderates,  or  demanders  (qf  moderate  things. 
The  Bolshevik  wants  the  earth,  and  in  a  state, of  chaos. 

THE  BIRTH  OF  THE  RUSSIAN  MONSTER 

Bolshevism  was  actually  born  into  the  world  in  Russia, 
on  Nov.  7,  1917.  Whether  it  was  conceived  in  the  slums 
of  Petrograd  or  Riga,  or  in  the  East  Side  of  New  York, 
we  do  not  know.  At  all  events,  we  know  that  immediately 
following  the  overthrow  of  the  Czar  and  the  rise  of 
Kerensky,  what  now  is  Bolshevism  received  a  powerful 
impetus,  in  men  and  in  money  from  New  York.  One 
American  from  Russia  who  testified  before  the  Overman 
Senate  Committee  said  that  the  bitterest  Bolshevists  that 
he  saw  in  Russia  were  American-Russians.  The  Russian 
anarchists  of  New  Yoirk  became  exceedingly  active;  and 
among  the  agitators  who  rushed  from  New  York  to  Russia 
to  help  overthrow  Kerensky's  Constitutional  Government 
and  promote  Bolshevism,  were  the  following  examples : 

Leon  Trotzky-,  now  Minister  of  Military  and  Marine  Af- 
fairs of  the  Soviet  "government" ;  a  cold-blooded  devil 
who  has  caused  the  ruthless  slaughter  of  tens  of  thousands 
of  the  finest  people  of  European  Russia.  His  cruelties  are 
as  yet  only  slightly  known  to  the  world. 

S.  Epstein,  organizer  of  the  Ladies'  Waist  Makers  Union. 

S.  Shubin,  in  New  York  a  radical  newspaper  writer  and 
agitator. 

Dr.  Max  Goldfarb,  formerly  a  "labor"  writer  and  agitator. 

J.  Vostron,  organizer  of  the  Jewish  Carpenters'  Union, 
later  a  Bolshevik  organizer  in  Moscow. 

GERMANY'S  PART  IN  RUSSIAN  BOLSHEVISM. 

Germany  was  largely  instrumental  in  the  creation  of  Bol- 
shevism in  Russia.  She  furnished  a  countless  number  of 
active  German  agents  to  spread  its  propaganda,  and  it 
is  said  that  Germany  furnished  Lenine  and  Trotzky  sums 
of  money  variously  estimated  at  from  $11,000,000  to  $20,- 
000,000.  As  soon  as  Trotzky  reached  Switzerland  from 
New  York,  in  the  summer  of  1917,  Germany  shipped  both 

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Trotzky  and  Lenine  quickly  and  very  safely  across  Ger- 
many to  a  po/int  where  they  could  safely  cross  into  Russia. 
Those  two  worthies  had  so  much  money  that  a  little  later 
there  was  found  in  the  possession  of  Lenine's  sister  in 
Berne  the  tidy  sum  of  1,000,000  rubles  which  she  could  in 
no  wise  explain  or  account  for. 

Apparently  Lenine  was  not, — when  the  getting  was  good, 
— so  very  greatly  opposed  to  individual  wealth,  after  all ! 
It  would  be  right  interesting  to  know  just  how  many  mil- 
lions in  cash  Lenine  and  Trotzky  have  stolen  from  Russian 
banks  and  trust  companies  up  to  date,  and  securely  hidden 
away  for  their  own  personal  use.  But  that  is  a  trifle,  light 
as  air.  No  one  can  expect  that  a  bold  and  free  Bolshevik 
shall  live  up  to  his  own  creed. 

Germany's  ,o,bjects  in  planting  Bolshevism  in  Russia 
were,  and  still  are,  precisely  as  follows : 

11 — She  wished  to  overthrow  a  democratic  government; 

2. — She  wished  to  produce  ruin  and  chaos; 

3. — She  wished  to  paralyze  all  Russian  power ; 

4. — She  wished  to  seize  all  Russian  factories  and  raw 
materials ; 

5. — She  wished  to  monopolize  and  control  Russian  trade ; 
and 

6. — Finally,  she  wished  to  cheat  America  and  the  Allies 
out  of  their  victory,  and  have  the  war  end  in  a  triumph 
for  Germany! 

She  has  already  accomplished  Nos.  1,  2,  3  and  4!.  Will 
she  land  5  and  6? 

German  officers  now  are,  and  all  along  have  been,  direct- 
ing the  movements  and  fighting  of  the  Red  armies. 

German  agents  now  are  busy  buying  up,  at  nominal 
prices,  the  idle  and  smokeless  factories  of  Russia,  for 
Germany. 

The  Russian  Soviet  "government"  ( !)  is  eating  out  of 
the  hand  of  the  Hun.  And  up  to  date,  America  and  the 
Allies  have  not  even  made  a  good  beginning  at  helping 
the  Real  .People  of  Russia  to  throw  off  the  Bolshevik  yoke, 
and  regain  their  feet!  Only  yesterday  there  was  great 
danger  that  America  would  recognize  and  treat  with 
Lenine !  And  what  a  tremendous  impetus  toi  world  Bol- 
shevism that  would  give ! 

If  things  go  on  as  they  are  now  going,  Russia  will  be- 
come the  vassal  of  Germany;  Germany  will  recover  her 
war-lost  wealth,  at  the  expense  of  Russia,  and  FIFTEEN 
YEARS  hence  Germany,  with  10,000,000  Bolshevik  soldiers 
at  her  back,  will  be  ready  to  sweep  across  Europe  to  the 
very  door-steps  of  Great  Britain! 

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Can  any  American  in  his  senses  DOUBT  this? 

Germany  would  leap  for  joy  to  see  the  United  States 
in  the  throes  of  civil  war  with  the  I.  W.  W.'s,  the  profes- 
sional strikers,  the  Advanced  Socialists,  Anarchists  and 
all  the  other  ists  and  isms  that  in  combination  make  up 
the  American  Bolsheviki. 

BOLSHEVISM  IN  AMERICA 

So  far  as  we  can  determine  today  the  Socialism  in 
America  that  deliberately  intends  to  pull  do,wn  the  pillars 
of  the  temple  of  Law  and  Order,  overthrow  all  power, 
"clean  out  the  capitalists"  and  seize  all  banks,  trust  com- 
panies, railroads,  telegraph  and  telephone  lines,  LANDS, 
MINES  and  PUBLIC  BUILDINGS,  is  composed  of  the 
following  organizations  and  elements.  Of  course  some  are 
mojre  radical  and  intense  than  others. 

1. — The  "class-conscious"  Bolshevists,  alien  and  native ; 

2._The  "Left-Wing"  Socialists; 

3. — The  Anarchists; 

4.— The  I.  W.  W.'s ; 

5.— The  People's  Council;  and 

6. — The  Rand  School  of  Social  Science. 

The  Extreme  Socialists,  or  Bolshevists. 

It  is  not  by  any  means  my  purpose  to  give  a  historical 
sketch  of  each  of  the  Socialistic  organizations  of  the  United 
States;  but  I  must  notice  two  or  three  of  them. 

The  extreme  Bolshevists  are  the  "class-conscious"  parties 
who  have  come  to  America  from  Russia  or  elsewhere  to 
escape  trouble  at  home  and  to  make  trouble  abroad,  or 
else  have  developed  here  out  of  Envy  and  Discontent. 
New  York  is  full  of  them ;  and  they  are  a  bold,  blatant  and 
a  potentially  dangerous  lot.  When  Morris  "Hillquit," 
born  a  Russian  in  Riga  under  the  name  of  Hilkowitz,  ran 
for  mayor  in  1917,  142,000  of  them  voted  for  him.  And 
that  was  before  the  days  of  female  suffrage.  Now  his  vote 
would  be  about  double  that  figure. 

This  group  includes  such  men  as  Dr.  Judah  P.  Magnes, 
a  Russian  rabbi,  who  on  February  17,  1918,  in  a  speech 
at  the  Central  Opera  House,  New  York,  said,  "Only 
through  peace  [with  Germany]  can  your  revolution  suc- 
ceed." 

He  meant  the  CIVIL  WAR  that  the  Bolshevists  lo^k 
forward  to  starting  soon  in  the  United  States! 

New  York  City  is  the  greatest  American  hotbed  for  the 
propagation  of  socialism,  Bolshevism  and  anarchy.  To 
give  even  half  a  description  of  its  newspapers,  magazines, 

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schools,  speakers,  and  its  taw-brow  and  high-brow  leaders, 
twenty  pages  like  these  would  be  required.  Consider  the 
following  newspapers: 

The  Rebel  Worker,  "organ  of  revolutionary  unionism" 
(I.  W.  W.) ;  The  Forward,  The  Marxian  and  The  Call,  The 
Liberator  (edited  by  Max  Eastman  and  which  is  a  daring 
defender  of  Bolshevism,  and  has  wide  influence.  The  Mes- 
senger, for  negroes,  and  perhaps  the  worst  iOjf  all,  it  will 
be  noticed  elsewhere). 

In  the  World  of  June  4  Mr.  Sherman  Rogers  classes  the 
following  magazines  with  the  "parlor  Bolshevik"  variety 
of  publications:  The  World  Tomorrow,  The  Nation,  The 
Dial,  and  The  New  Republic. 

On  April  12  the  New  York  Tribune  published  with 
great  fulness  af  detail  the  discovery  that  at  that  date  there 
existed  in  the  upper  end  of  New  York  City  15  schools  for 
teaching  Bolshevik  Socialism  to  little  children,  with  a 
Russian  named  Samuel  R.  Slavsky  as  general  superintend- 
ent, who  said:  "Of  course  I  am  a  Bolshevik!" 

On  June  4  it  was  stated  by  Sherman  Rogers,  in  the  New  York 
World  that  in  New  York  City  there  are  45  publishing  houses  de- 
voted to  printing  Socialist  and  Bolshevik  literature;  that  some 
"250  different  Socialist,  radical  Socialist,  I.  W.  W.  and  Bolshevik 
newspapers  and  various  Bolshevik  pamphlets  are  openly  sold  in 
New  York,"  and  that  "great  masses"  of  this  literature  are  daily 
purchased  by  the  "youthful  students"  of  Bolshevism. 

The  "Highbrows." — There  is  nqw  another  type  of  Bol- 
shevist in  our  midst, — the  "Highbrow"  or  "Parlor"  kind, 
composed  of  people  who  are  either  in  the  "intellectual"  or 
"rich"  classes.  1  could  write  down  the  names  of  at  least 
50;  but  what  is  the  use? 

The  Socialists. — The  former  Socialist  party  has  landed 
squarely  in  the  ranks  of  the  Bolsheviks,  and  the  Aid  name 
might  just  as  well  disappear.  All  socialism  now  should 
be  spelled  B-o-l-s-h-e-v-i-k-i.  To  this  rule  the  old  Inter- 
collegiate Socialist  Society,  with  roots  and  branches  in 
sixty-two  of  our  colleges  and  universities,  is  no  exception. 
When  I  asked  the  Conference  of  that  Society  held  at  Dela- 
ware Water  Gap  on  Sept.  10,  1918,  to  disavow  the  Bolshevik 
St.  Louis  platform  of  the  Socialist  Party,  they  politely 
sidestepped  and  took  no  action.  Until  they  definitely  aban- 
don the  present  brand  of  socialism,  we  must  hereafter  put 
down  the  Intercollegiate  Socialist  Siociety  as  true 
Bolsheviks. 

It  is  said  that  the  Socialist  party  has  thrown  out  of  its 
ranks  all  the  leading  men  who  are  not  Bolshevists,  and  who 
wish  to  see  Germany  properly  punished  for  her  crimes. 

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Every  Wednesday  at  the  Rand  School  of  Social  Science 
the  Russian  Slavsky  instructs  classes  of  socialist  Sunday- 
school  teachers  in  teaching  Bolshevism. 

BOLSHEVIK  AGITATORS  AMONG  SOUTHERN 
NEGROES. 


FROM  THE  NEW  YORK  WORLD,  JUNE  4,  1919. 

The  radical  forces  in  New  York  City  have  recently  embarked  on 
a  great  new  field  of  revolutionary  endeavor,  the  education  through 
agitation  of  the  Southern  negro  into  the  mysteries  and  desirability 
of  revolutionary  Bolshevism.  There  are  several  different  powerful 
forces  in  New  York  City  behind  this  move.  The  chief  established 
propaganda  is  being  distributed  through  The  Messenger  which 
styles  itself  "The  only  magazine  of  scientific  radicalism  in  the 
world  published  by  negroes."  Its  editors  are  A.  Philip  Randolph 
and  Chandler  Owen,  with  George  Frazier  Miller  contributing  edi- 
tor. This  radical  journal  is  published  at  2305  Seventh  Avenue, 
New  York  City.  With  the  exception  of  The  Liberator,  it  is  the 
most  radical  journal  printed  in  the  United  States. 

The  following  excerpts  demonstrate  the  radical  policies  of  this 
new  revolutionary  organ: 

"The  time  is  ripe  for  a  great  mass  movement  among  the  neg- 
roes. It  ought  to  assume  four  distinct  forms — labor  unions,  farm- 
ers' protective  unions,  co-operative  business  and  socialism.  *  *  * 
Fourth  and  last,  negroes  must  get  into  the  Socialist  Party." 
(Left  wing.) 

"We  want  more  Bolshevik  patriotism  in  this  country.  *  *  *  We 
want  a  patriotism  represented  by  a  flag  so  red  that  it  symbolizes 
truly  the  oneness  of  blood  running  through  each  one  of  our  veins. 
What  we  really  need  is  the  patriotism  of  liberty,  justice  and  joy; 
that  is,  Bolshevik  patriotism,  and  we  want  more  of  it  in  the 
United  States." 

At  the  present  time  the  direct  action  forces  are  concentrating 
their  brainiest  American  speaking  agitators  on  the  negro  districts 
in  the  South.  They  are  enlisting  the  services  of  a  great  many 
negro  preachers,  and  are  succeeding  in  their  agitation  to  an  alarm- 
ing degree.  They  put  up  an  argument  to  the  colored  worker  that 
is  practically  irresistible,  inasmuch  as  they  guarantee  him  abso- 
lute social  equality  until  the  doctrines  set  forth  by  the  I.  W.  W., 
and  naturally  this  appeal  acts  magically  on  the  average  Southern 
negro  laborer.  The  Bolshevik  leaders  are  confident  of  organizing 
a  major  portion  of  the  negro  element  in  the  South  during  the 
coming  year,  therefore  are  concentrating  their  most  magnetic 
propaganda  and  propagandists  on  Southern  fields. 

To  the  above  reliable  news  from  the  World  I  wish  to 
add,  for  the  special  benefit  of  the  Southern  negroes,  this 
bit  of  friendly  advice :  Don't  you  touch  Bolshevism  with 
anything  shorter  than  a  ten-foot  pole.  If  you  do,  you 
will  see  a  tremendous  revival  of  the  old  Ku  Klux  Klan; 
and  you  will  get  the  worst  of  it.  This  is  not  an  idle  per- 
sonal opinion  on  my  part.  I  know  Southern  men  who  say, 
"I  will  be  mighty  sorry  to  see  the  Southern  negroes  go  in 
for  Bolshevism ;  for  we  wish  them  well." 

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The  Bolshevist  Bludgeon  as  Applied  to  Property  Rights. 

All  that  we  have  read  in  the  newspapers  and  magazines 
regarding  the  seizure  of  property  in  Russia  under  Bol- 
shevism is  merely  one  drop  in  the  bucket  in  comparison 
with  the  stern  realities.  After  reading  even  the  first  two 
pages  af  the  text  of  the  official  "Russian  [Bolshevik]  Land 
Law,"  the  brain  fairly  staggers  under  the  magnitude  of  the 
total  and  sweeping  destruction  of  all  individual  and  cor- 
porate rights  in  land,  as  effected  in  Bolshevik  Russia  by 
that  instrument.  It  is  difficult  to  believe  that  even  the 
craziest  lunatics  on  earth  could  actually  frame  and  carry 
into  effect  such  a  scheme  as  this. 

The  whole  Bolshevik  scheme  is  so  complex,  s,o,  wildly 
visionary  and  so  utterly  impossible  of  realization  that 
millions  of  helpless  Russians, — men,  women  and  children 
— will  starve  to  death  while  the  baboons  of  Bolshevism 
are  juggling  with  their  plans ! 

But  let  me,  without  further  comment,  transcribe  the  first 
eight  Articles  <o£  this  amazing  "law."  It  represents  the 
most  gigantic  robbery  ever  perpetrated  since  thieves  first 
began  to  steal.  And  by  Article  8  those  who  are  completely 
pauperized  may  receive  "pensions,"  the  same  as  soldiers 
receive, — in  sums  which  easily  may  be  imagined! 

Article  1.  All  property  rights  in  the  land,  treasures  of  the 
earth,  waters,  forests,  and  fundamental  natural  resources  within 
the  boundaries  of  the  Russian  Federated  Soviet  Republic  are 
abolished. 

Article  2.  The  land  passes  over  to  the  use  of  the  entire  labor- 
ing population  without  any  compensation,  open  or  secret,  to  the 
former  owners. 

Article  3.  The  right  to  use  the  land  belongs  to  those  who  till 
it  by  their  own  labor,  with  the  exception  of  special  cases  covered 
by  this  decree. 

Article  4.  The  right  to  use  the  land  cannot  be  limited  by  sex, 
religion,  nationality,  or  foreign  citizenship. 

Article  5.  The  sub-surface  deposits,  the  forests,  waters,  and 
fundamental  natural  resources  are  at  the  disposition  (according 
to  their  character)  of  the  county,  provincial,  regional,  and  Fed- 
eral Soviet  powers  and  are  under  the  control  of  the  latter.  The 
method  of  disposition  and  utilization  of  the  sub-surface  deposits, 
waters,  and  fundamental  natural  resources  will  be  dealt  with  by 
a  special  decree.  * 

Article  6.  All  private  live  stock  and  inventoried  property  of 
non-laboring  homesteads  pass  over  without  indemnification  to  the 
disposition  (in  accordance  with  their  character)  of  the  land  de- 
partments of  the  county,  provincial,  regional  and  Federal  Soviets. 

Article  7.  All  homestead  constructions  mentioned  in  article  6, 
as  well  as  all  agricultural  appurtenances,  pass  over  to  the  dispo- 
sition (in  accordance  with  their  character)  of  the  county,  pro- 
vincial, regional,  and  Federal  Soviets  without  indemnification. 

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Article  8.  All  persons  who  are  unable  to  work  and  who  will  be 
deprived  of  all  means  of  subsistence  by  force  of  the  decree  social- 
izing all  lands,  forests,  inventoried  property,  etc.,  may  receive  a 
pension  (for  a  lifetime  or  until  the  person  becomes  of  age),  upon 
the  certification  of  the  local  courts  and  the  land  departments  of 
the  Soviet  power,  such  as  a  soldier  receives,  until  such  time  as 
the  decree  for  the  insurance  of  the  incapacitated  is  issued. 

The  Bolshevik  scheme  for  the  use  of  the  Soviet's  land 
is  based  solely  upon  the  one-man  hand-power  unit.  If 
you  cannot  till  the  soil  yourself,  and  raise  food  for  yourself 
and  your  family,  you  get  the  use  of  no  land.  You  must 
not  hire  any  help;  for  that  would  make  you  "a  capitalist 
and  a  slave-driver."  If  you  raise,  by  extra  diligence,  any 
surplusage  of  crops  of  any  kind,  the  Soviet  takes  yo.ur  sur- 
plus, at  a  merely  nominal  compensation.  Of  course  you 
do  not  receive  the  value  of  what  your  labor  has  earned; 
for  that  would  be  an  injustice  to  others  who  had  worked 
less  hard! 

But  why  go  farther  into  the  details  of  this  sad  and  tragic 
farce?  We  hear  that  the  Russians  who  are  directly  affected 
by  Bolshevism  are  starving,  in  great  numbers.  We  have 
read  and  heard  that  many  thousands  of  helpless  people 
have  been  put  to  death  by  cruel  and  brutal  methods  be- 
cause they  were  more  intelligent  and  better  educated  than 
the  soldiers  and  workmen! 

It  is  the  fixed  purpose  of  Bolshevism  to  drag  down  the 
hated  "capitalistic  class"  and  the  educated  "bourgeoise"  to 
the  lowest  intellectual  level  of  the  peasant  and  workman. 
If  the  Russian  clerk  can  read  or  write,  or  if  he  owns  a 
home,  he  is  under  the  ban,  and  he  goes  down  and  out! 

Men  and  women  of  America !  This  is  Bolshevism.  What 
do  you  think  of  the  men  and  women  who  advocate  it,  and 
are  ready  to  fight  and  make  war  to  establish  it  in  free 
America? 

Do  you  want  any  Socialist-Bolsheviks  teaching  your 
children  in  public  schools,  in  colleges  and  in  universities? 
Do  you  want  any  of  them  sitting  in  your  state  legislature, 
or  in  Congress,  making  laws  for  YOU  and  YOUR 
CHILDREN? 

Do  you  want  any  of  them  in  your  Board  of  Aldermen, 
or  in  any  city,  county  or  state  offices? 

Do  you  want  any  of  them  in  office  in  Washington? 

Do  you  want  any  of  them  going  to  Russia  on  official 
missions  to  report  on  Bolshevism  for  YOU?  Well,  Lincoln 
Steffans  and  William  C.  Bullitt  were  recently  sent;  and 
a  Red  Herring  was  to  have  been  drawn  across  the  trail  of 
Loyalty  at  Prinkopo ;  only  it  couldn't  get  there. 

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The  Socialists,  the  Anarchists  and  the  other  Bolshevists 
are  now  openly  preaching  "the  revolution"  in  America.  Do 
you  realize  what  that  really  means,  to  you  and  me? 

It  means  CIVIL  WAR,  armies,  dead  men,  burned  cities 
and  ruined  homes !  These  may  yet  be  the  fruits  of  in- 
vertebrate Americanism,  the  fatal  fetich-worship  of  the 
"free-speech"  idol,  and  50  years  of  dragging  American  citi- 
zenship through  the  slums  of  all  nations. 

We  have  been  a  nation  of  sleepy,  spineless,  sodden  fools. 
Now  we  are  in  the  mire  of  alien  socialism,  up  to  tour  knees. 
Have  we  sufficient  moral  stamina  to  get  out  of  it? 

There  is  now  no  time  in  which  to  get  out  of  it  by  "edu- 
cation,"— as  is  so  often  proposed.  When  your  Hoiuse  is 
burning  you  can't  stop  to  study  incombustible  materials, 
or  listen  to  lectures  on  architecture.  We  have  got  to  clean 
out  Bolshevism  in  America  by  prompt  but  lawful  methods 
or  we  surely  will  have  a  civil  war  on  our  hands.  Such 
lawful  methods  exist,  if  our  officials  will  employ  them. 

ARE  we  equal  to  the  task? 

BOLSHEVIKS   PROPOSE   FIGHTING 

On  Nov.  15,  1917,  at  Cooper  Union,  New  York,  Elmer 
Ronseberg,  a  Socialist  Assemblyman  elect,  at  a  celebration 
of  the  Jewish  Socialist  Federation,  prophesied  a  revolution 
in  America.  "If  no  other  element  will  fight  for  free  speech," 
said  he,  "we  will!  The  American  peasants  will  drive  the 
czars  out  of  America."  (Loudly  cheered.) 

On  January  23,  1918,  in  Forward  Hall,  New  York  City, 
James  Larkin  said :  "Our  work  is  to  wipe  out  the  capital- 
istic class !"  and  the  red-ribboned  audience,  all  save  the 
reporters  and  an  army  officer,  leaped  to  its  feet  and  yelled 
its  approval. 

(In  the  jargon  of  Bolshevism,  the  "capitalistic  class"  is 
made  up  of  all  persons  who  own  property,  all  who  have 
bank  accounts,  who  can  read  and  write,  and  who  bathe, 
shave  and  have  their  hair  cut.) 

Recently  (February,  1919)  many  posters  were  put  up  by 
anarchists  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  calling  upon  "workmen" 
to  attend  a  meeting  to  "organize  for  the  revolution." 

In  March,  1919,  the  central  committee  of  the  Queens 
(N.  Y.  City)  local  of  the  Socialist  Party  issued  a  manifesto 
saying  this:  "Revolutionary  Socialists  do  not  believe  that 
they  can  come  into  power  through  the  ballot  alone.  They 
fight  for  the  conquest  of  power  through  the  revolutionary 
proletariat."  And  there  you  have  it. 

And  now  read  the  words  in  which  Lenine,  the  Evil 

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Genius  of  Europe,  declares  that  civil  war  and  terrorism  are 
the  means  absolutely  necessary  in  the  seizure  of  property 
and  the  complete  triumph  of  Bolshevism : 

"No  Socialist  or  Anarchist — call  him  what  you  like — 
dares  to  say  in  any  gathering  you  choose  to  name  that  one 
can  arrive  at  Socialism  WITHOUT  CIVIL  WAR— unless 
he  has  lost  his  reason.  You  may  look  through  the  entire 
literature  of  all  the  more  or  less  responsible  Socialist 
parties,  factions  and  groups,  and  you  will  not  find  a  single 
responsible  and  earnest  Socialist  entertaining  such  non- 
sense as  that  Socialism  can  ever  come  in  OTHERWISE 
THAN  BY  CIVIL  WAR,  and  that  the  landowners  and 
capitalists  will  [peacefully]  relinquish  their  privileges. 
That  is  a  degree  of  simplicity  that  borders  on  imbecility." 

"One  cannot  conquer  and  abolish  capitalism  without 
ruthlessly  overcoming  the  opposition  and  the  exploiters. 
Every  great  revolution,  but  especially  the  Socialist  revolu- 
tion— even  if  there  has  been  no  external  war — is  unthink- 
able without  an  internal  WAR,  which  implies  even  greater 
disorder  than  external  war." — (New  York  Tribune,  Mar. 
23,  1919.) 

Recently  in  the  official  Assembly  of  the  Soviet  at  Petro- 
grad,  Smovyeff,  the  President  of  the  Commune,  said : 

"Our  heroic  Red  Army  is  destined  to  fight  not  only  in 
Russia,  but  also  in  the  streets  and  squares  of  London,  Paris 
and  Rome  for  the  great  ideal  of  Communism."  (London 
Times,  Mar.  14.) 

The  Times  Helsingfors  correspondent  says : 

"I  learn  that  the  Foreign  Propaganda  Section  at  Moscow 
were  to  have  expended  up  to  March  1,  300,000,000  rubles 
[nominally  $150,000,000]  of  which  50,000,000  [rubles] 
were  for  the  purpose  of  encouraging  agitation  in  Ireland. 
It  is  stated  that  the  Bolsheviki  support  financially  news- 
papers in  England." 

In  Cleveland,  Ohio,  on  March  29,  1919,  C.  E.  Ruthen- 
berg,  former  Socialist  candidate  for  MAYOR,  said: 

"No  more  reforms  in  the  present  economic  and  political 
system  will  be  supported.  Our  whole  plan  is  REVOLU- 
TION." 

OUR  LINES  OF  DEFENSE  AGAINST  BOLSHEVISM. 

When  we  stop  to  line  up  the  defenses  of  the  American 
Flag  against  Bolshevism,  we  see  at  a  glance  that  the  future 
integrity  of  our  nation  can  be  made  secure.  If  "the  Revo- 
lution" comes,  as  a  million  Bolshevists  intend  that  it  shall 
come,  the  forces  of  anarchy  will  be  swept  away.  There 
is  no  room  to  doubt  that. 

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Organized  Labor  stands  firmly  far  Orderly  Government. 
And  the  real  American  is  no  fool.  Although  he  may  work 
in  shirt-sleeves  today,  he  knows  that  his  educated  son  or 
daughter  may  be  rich  tomorrow !  This  is  THE  land  of 
Opportunity,  and  the  ambitious  workingman  is  not  going 
to  drag  his  own  wife  and  children  down  to  the  level  of 
cave  men,  while  under  the  present  system  his  son  may  be- 
come president  of  the  United  States. 

But  let  us  line  up  our  national  defenses  against  anarchy 
and  chaos,  and  see  what  they  look  like.  Here  they  are : 

1. — The  American  Press. 

2. — The  old  Republican  Party. 

2._The  ,old  Democratic  Party. 

4. — The  Churches,  of  all  denominations. 

5. — The  American  Federation  of  Labor. 

6. — Native-American  women,  everywhere. 

7. — The  Service  Men,  of  the  Army  and  Navy. 

8._The  Boy  Scouts. 

9,— The  Police  of  all  cities. 

The  above  forces  make  a  goodly  array.  If  they  are  all 
awakened,  and  aroused  to  the  point  of  vigorous  action,  the 
American  Bolshevists  can  be  held  in  control,  without  any 
revolutions  or  civil  war. 

THE  AMERICAN  FEDERATION  OF  LABOR  AS  A 
DEFENSE  LINE  AGAINST  BOLSHEVISM. 

The  real  Labor  element  of  America,  the  American  Fed- 
eration of  Labor,  has  stood  like  a  Rock  of  Gibraltar  against 
the  waves  af  Socialism,  Anarchy,  I.  W.  W.ism  and  alien 
Bolshevism  that  have  lashed  against  its  base  and  vainly 
endeavored  to  undermine  it.  Mr.  Samuel  Gompers,  its 
President,  has  set  his  face  like  adamant  against  the  forces 
that  have  endeavored  to  cajole,  to  threaten  and  finally  to 
force  him  and  the  Federation  into  the  ranks  of  the  revolu- 
ionists  and  civil-war  makers. 

Nor  is  this  surprising.  The  real  American  worker,— 
n,o,t  the  shirker,  the  saboteur  and  the  jaw-smith, — has  more 
intelligence,  more  reasoning  power,  more  real  sense,  more 
money  in  the  bank  and  more  real  estate  than  the  worker  of 
any  other  nation  under  the  sun.  He  knows  when  to  stand 
up  and  strike  for  his  rights,  but  he  has  a  million  times 
too  much  sense  to  dream  ,o,f  such  insane  folly  as  trying  to 
"seize"  the  factory  and  man  it  himself,  without  either  capi- 
tal, credit  or  business  experience.  He  knows  that  Capital 
is  just  as  necessary  to  Labor  as  Labor  is  to  Capital;  and 

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that  both  are  entitled  to  a  square  deal  and  their  God-given 
rights.  Where  his  housing  and  his  conditions  are  not 
right  they  should  be  made  right ;  but  he  also  knows  that  in 
the  congested  districts  of  the  great  cities  no  power  on  earth 
can  provide  a  roomy  and  comfortable  home  for  every  alien 
who  chooses  to  jam  himself  in  and  live  where  there  is  no 
room  for  him,  instead  of  seeking  more  room  elsewhere. 

As  evidence  of  the  position  of  organized  Labor  there  is 
nothing  better  than  the  following  sane,  logical  and  pro- 
foundly stirring  extracts  from  an  editorial  in  The  Union 
of  Feb.  28,  1919,  headed,  "An  Appeal  to  All  Unio,n  Men 
and  All  Patriots !"  (Copyright  1919  by  The  Union.) 

"The  maggot  of  Bolshevism  lives  in  the  vitals  of  the 
American  body  politic. 

There  is  no  dodging  the  fact,  no  putting  it  aside  with 
glittering  generalities  lauding  the  soundness  and  con- 
servatism of  the  American  people.  We  are  sound  and  con- 
servative in  proportion  to  our  prosperity  and  contentment, 
but  there  is  a  large  element  of  our  population  that  is  neither 
prosperous  nor  content,  because  it  is  ignorant  (or  envious. 
And  that  is  the  element  of  danger;  it  carries  a  red  flag 
more  or  less  concealed.  It  has  no  real  wrongs  to  right,  but 
it  is  not  the  less  dangerous  on  that  account;  it  will  wave 
the  red  flag  if  it  believes  it  will  receive  any  sort  of  ap- 
plause— and  this  is  as  true  as  it  wears  the  garb  io£  respect- 
ability as  when  it  is  clothed  in  the  reeking  rags  of  the  slum. 

And  that  element  must  be  educated  up  to  American 
standards — or  beaten  into  compliance  with  those  standards. 
It  would  appear  that  time  would  not  permit  in  the  present 
emergency  of  the  educational  process — wherefore  it  is  the 
duty  of  labor — which  nourishes,  by  tolerating,  this  emtic 
menace  to  the  country,  the  family  and  the  home — to  stamp 
out  potential  Bolshevism.  And,  as  The  Union  has  had  oc- 
casion to  point  out  before,  every  Socialist  is  a  potential 
Bolshevist. 

Bolshevism  in  the  United  States  is  sailing  today  under 
the  flag  of  Socialism.  It  has  a  more  or  less  effectively  or- 
ganized propaganda  in  the  form  of  literature  that  bears  the 
stamp  of  intellectuals,  so-called.  Much  flf  this  literature 
finds  its  way  to  this  office  through  the  mails.  It  is  specious, 
insidious  and  calculated  to  lead  the  reader  astray  if  he  lacks 
moral  or  mental  balance;  but  the  real  object  of  it  is  to 
maintain  the  morale  of  the  Red  agitators  and  to  furnish 
them  with  material  for  speeches  that  would  be  made  in  hun- 
dreds of  union  locals  every  week  if  the  orators  were  not 
kept  down  with  a  strong  hand.  It  preaches,  under  cover 

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of  movements  for  the  elevation  of  mankind,  the  upsetting 
of  the  social  order,  and  it  is  dangerous  because  it  inflames 
the  minds  of  men  who  have  been  fed  on  the  pabulum  of 
the  parlor  Socialists. 

But  there  is  also  an  active  and  defiant  and  menacing 
element  that  has  nothing  in  common  with  parlor  Socialism ; 
which  stands  for  revolutionary  violence  in  every  form  and 
which  has  been  stimulated  to  throw  off  its  disguise  by  the 
apparent  success  of  the  Bolsheviki  in  Russia,  and,  possibly, 
in  Germany.  The  jailing  of  the  I.  W.  W.  chiefs  who  have 
been  guilty  of  overt  acts  and  the  punishment  of  traitors  to 
the  American  people  in  time  of  war  has  had  no,  deterrent 
effect  on  this  element,  which  has  its  most  vicious  leaders  in 
New  York  and  its  most  noisy  and  actively  dangerous  mob 
development  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

THE  "LABOR  DEFENDER,"  THE  ORGAN  OF  THE 
REDS  IN  NEW  YORK— WHICH  HAS  BEEN  EX- 
CLUDED FROM  THE  MAILS  MOST  INEFFECT- 
IVELY IN  THAT  IT  IS  STILL  BEING  CIRCULATED 
THROUGH  THE  MAILS— COMES  TO  THIS  OFFICE 
WITH  ITS  FIRST  PAGE  SETTING  FORTH  A  CAR- 
TOON ENTITLED  "OPEN  THE  JAILS,"  AND  PIC- 
TURING A  CAVE  MAN  SWINGING  A  SLEDGE 
AGAINST  A  STONE  WALL.  ITS  TYPE  PAGES 
REEK  WITH  FOUL  LANGUAGE  AND  REPORTS  OF 
THE  GREAT  SUCCESS  OF  THE  RUSSIAN  REVOLU- 
TION. IT  IS  SO  ESSENTIALLY  ROTTEN  AND  UN- 
AMERICAN  THAT  IT  MIGHT  BE  REGARDED  AS 
SOMETHING  IN  THE  NATURE  OF  A  FOREIGN 
TYPOGRAPHICAL  JOKE  IF  IT  WERE  NOT  FOR 
THE  FACT  THAT  IT  WAS  THE  PRINCIPAL 
MEANS  OF  PROCURING  A  MEETING  IN  CHICAGO 
THE  OTHER  DAY  WHICH  WAS  ADDRESSED  BY 
ONE  OF  THE  MOST  ELOQUENT  OF  NEW  YORK 
LAWYERS— WHO  HAS  EVINCED  THE  CAPACITY 
OF  THE  CHAMELEON  IN  CHANGING  HIS  POLIT- 
ICAL COLORS;  WHICH  WAS  RULED  BY  THE 
REDS  AND  RESOLVED  THE  DOWNFALL  OF  THE 
EXISTING  ORDER. 

AT  A  LABOR  MASS  MEETING  IN  INDIANAPOLIS 
LAST  WEEK  A  FOREIGNER  WHO  COULD  SPEAK 
NO  ENGLISH  FLAUNTED  A  RED  FLAG  WHILE 
ANOTHER  ONE  PRODUCED  A  BLACKJACK  WITH 
THE  REMARK,  "MEBBE  DIS-A  GET-A  ONE  OR 
TWO  OF  'EM,  HA?"  BOTH  THESE  LATTER  SUF- 
FERED SOME  LITTLE  IN  THE  HANDLING  THEY 
RECEIVED  IN  BEING  THROWN  OUT.  TWO 

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THOUSAND  REDS  PARADED  IN  SEATTLE  AND 
CARRIED  THE  RED  FLAG  WHILE  DEFYING  THE 
POLICE. 

The  presence  of  this  element  in  the  United  States  must 
not  be  tolerated  if  this  country  is  to  continue  its  develop- 
ment. The  remedy  is  not  so  much  in  the  laws — though 
their  rigid  enforcement  with  exact  justice  would  go  far  to 
restrain  the  men  who  foster  unworthy  and  unjust  ideas  in 
the  minds  of  the  men  who  must  suffer  most  from  any  seri- 
ous increase  in  the  growth  of  the  elements  of  evil.  It  is 
in  the  hands  of  the  great  body  of  men  who  work  for  a 
wage,  to  whom  independence  is  a  tangible  fact;  whose 
horizon  is  not  bounded  by  the  job  of  today;  who  hope  to 
win  in  the  industrial  race  that  is  taking  place  in  a  country 
and  under  a  government  that  imposes  no  manhood  handi- 
caps. The  American  MAN  must  cut  down  the  exotic 
brute,  the  B,o,lshevik,  or  whatever  he  calls  himself. 

Labor,  American  Labor,  which  gave  millions  of  men  to 
the  service  of  the  country  that  government  for,  of  and  by 
the  people  might  not  perish  from  the  earth,  must  put  down 
Bolshevism,  Socialism  and  anarchy  with  a  strong  hand  that 
its  children  and  its  children's  children  may  be  safe-guarded 
in  their  inheritance  of  citizenship  with  equal  rights  in  all 
things.  Let  us  show  all  men  and  all  the  world  that  we  are 
capable  of  holding  that  which  we  have  won  against  any 
attack  from  within  or  without." 

(End  of  quotations  from  The  Union.) 

A  NEW  SAFETY  CLUTCH  IN  THE  RETURNED 
SOLDIERS. 

The  war  has  had  one  effect  that  was  expected  by  thought- 
ful men,  but  to  many  others  it  will  came  as  a  surprise. 

Our  young  men  were  hastily  summoned  to  put  on  the 
khaki  and  sail  for  the  seat  of  war. 

The  training  camps,  the  trenches,  "no  man's  land,"  the 
devastated  regions,  the  soldiers  of  other  nations,  and  above 
all  the  sight  of  their  own  dead,  all  did  their  work  in  the 
education  of  the  American  Soldier.  He  soon  saw  why  we 
were  at  war  with  Germany !  Our  Boys  saw  for  themselves 
that  the  stories  of  Hun  atrocities  WERE  TRUE. 

And  they  saw  the  net  results  in  France,  and  learned  of 
Bolshevism  in  Russia! 

It  was  American  soldiers  and  marines, — God  bless  them, 
— who  drove  the  red  flag  of  Anarchy  and  Bolshevism  off 
the  streets  of  New  York!  Had  it  been  at  all  necessary,  I 

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think  they  would  have  torn  down  Carnegie  Hall  in  order 
to  accomplish  that  task. 

And  it  was  returned  soldiers  and  marines  who  threatened 
to  storm  the  Lexington  Theatre  if  the  Germans  of  New 
York  began  to  act  a  German  opera,  in  the  language  of  the 
enemy.  They  would  have  done  it,  too!  But  the  German 
managers  wisely  concluded  to  abandon  their  plan  for  a  run 
of  German  opera  in  New  York  before  the  final  peace  terms 
were  signed. 

The  following  is  from  the  New  York  World : 

Pittsfield,  Mass.,  March  30.— Major  General  Clarence  R. 
Edwards,  speaking  this  afternoon  before  the  mothers  and 
fathers  of  the  men  in  the  26th  Division  of  which  he  was 
commander,  said: 

"God  pity  the  I.  W.  W.  or  Bolshevik  who  gets  upon  a 
soap  box  and  tries  to  tear  down  this  government  when 
these  lads  are  ar,o,und.  They  will  fix  them !" 

In  New  York  General  O'Ryan  expressed  a  similar  opin- 
ion in  a  speech  before  the  Merchants'  Association  on 
April  1.  \-m*v~  ~*~ 

The  loyal  people  of  America  can  rest  assured  that  in 
any  and  every  clash  with  Bolshevism  in  America  the  re- 
turned American  soldiers  and  marines  will  be  found  on  the 
American  side.  The  men  who  went  over  to  the  trenches 
to  risk  all  f,o,r  the  Flag  will  not  lag  or  be  at  all  modest  in 
defending  it  against  anarchists.  Those  must  entertain  no 
illusions  regarding  the  beauty  and  desirability  of  rough- 
necked  "proletariat"  Soviet  government. 

We  are  not  at  all  afraid  of  the  final  result  of  a  clash  at 
arms  with  the  Bolshevik-Socialists;  but  unnecessary  war 
and  bloodshed  can  and  should  be  prevented  by  the  civil 
authorities.  We  have  had  (0,ne  civil  war,  and  that  is  enough. 
It  is  our  duty  to  strangle  the  cobras  of  Bolshevism  before 
they  strike. 

HOW  TO  FIGHT  BOLSHEVISM. 

Don't  permit  any  man  to  make  speeches,  or  issue  writings, 

tending  to  destroy  our  constitution,  or  to  advocate  the 

.Qverthrow  of  our  government. 
Deny  the  right  of  assemblage  to  all  who  in  any  manner 

advocate  the  overthrow  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United 

States. 
Deny  the  use  of  the  mails  to  all  propaganda  advocating  a 

revolution. 
Perpetually  prohibit  Bolshevik  teachers  fram  teaching  in 

any  American  school,  college  or  university. 


Expel  from  the  country  all  alien  Bolsheviks,  socialists  and 
anarchists. 

Prohibit  Bolsheviks  from  holding  public  office. 

Severe  punishment  for  sabotage. 

Make  it  unlawful  for  any  employer  of  labor  to  appoint  or 
keep  a  Bolshevik  in  his  employ. 

Prohibit  the  use  of  the  red  flag  in  processions  and  in  as- 
semblages. 

Assist  the  American  Federation  of  Labor  in  its  educational 
campaign  against  Bolshevism. 

Promote  the  Americanization  of  aliens. 

QUESTIONS  AND  ANSWERS  FOR  THE  AVERAGE 
AMERICAN. 

Q. — Are  you  tired  of  a  well-governed  democracy  of  intelli- 
gence, and  of  peace  and  coimfort  for  the  thrifty? 
A. — If  you  are,  then  go  to  Russia  to  live. 
Q. — Are  you  tired  of  law,  order  and  police  protection  ? 

A. — If  you  are,  then  go  to  Russia  where  there  are  none. 
Q. — Do  you  wish  to  retain,  for  yourself  and  your  children, 
the  right  and  the  opportunity  to  RISE  to  the  high  levels 
of  intelligence,  position  and  power? 

A. — Then  stand  firmly  against  all  Bolshevism  and  social- 
ism in  America. 

Q. — Do  you  wish  to  continue  to  own  your  home,  your  bank 
savings,  your  Liberty  bonds,  your  horse  and  wagon  and 

your  wife  and  children? 

A. — Then  fight  Bolshevism ;  for  in  socialistic  Russia  ALL 
those  things  are  taken  from  their  original  owners  and 
turned  .over  to  "the  state." 

Q. — Do  you  wish  to  continue  to  work  in  the  business,  the 
factory,  the  mine,  the  farm  and  the  store  you  have  worked 
all  your  life  to,  build  up  into  a  property  that  will  keep  you 
from  being  a  pauper  when  you  are  unable  to  work  with 
your  hands? 

A. — Then  fight  socialism  for  all  you  are  worth ;  for  if  it 
wins  it  will  strip  you  to  the  one  suit  of  clothes  on  your 
back,  and  pauperize  you! 

Q. — Do  you  wish  to  have  your  children  education  to  stand 
above  the  level  of  the  densely  ignorant  who  can  not  read 
or  write? 

A. — Then  just  remember  that  in  Russia  the  Bolsheviks 
have  cruelly  murdered  tens  of  thousands  of  persons  be- 
cause they  were  educated,  wore  clean  clothes,  bathed, 
shaved  and  kept  their  hair  cut. 

SO 


HELP  FIGHT  THE  AMERICAN 
BOLSHEVIKI NOW 


^17"  ERY  rapidly  we  are  approach- 
ing a  grave  crisis  in  the  affairs 
of  the  American  Commonwealth. 
The  hearthstones  of  the  nation  are 
in  danger.  If  organized  Labor 
once  loses  its  head  and  takes  into 
its  system  the  poison  that  has 
wrecked  and  ruined  Russia,  all 
kinds  of  evil  things  will,  happen 
here,  on  the  Russian  plan. 

The  Bolsheviks  are  now  putting 
forth  well-organized,  widespread 
and  most  vigorous  efforts  to  per- 
suade the  real  workmen  of  Amer- 
ica to  adopt  the  policy  of  Lenine 
and  Trotzky. 

Our  hope  is  that  the  reliable 
elements  in  American  life  can  be 
enlightened  to  the  evils  of  social- 
ism, anarchy  and  Bolshevism,  and 
continue  to  keep  sane  and  peace- 
ful while  the  great  industrial  prob- 
lems now  worrying  the  nation  are 
worked  out  by  ^competent  minds. 


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